Bookworm Room

I received something peculiar in my email yesterday: A few things to note: 1.  The email informs me that someone left a comment on “bookwormroom.wordpress.com,” a blog that has lain dormant for four years. 2.  The Author’s name is an obvious nom de cyber — Trimegistus. 3.  The Author leaves as his email address “flag@whitehouse.gov“. [...]

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Weiner was tap-dancing so fast for the last few days he made Fred Astaire look like a piker.  We all knew he was lying.  Today finally saw the denouement:  more photos (some x-rated), more texts, more women, and a full confession.  The only thing missing was the one thing the American people deserved:  a resignation. [...]

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Obscenely overpriced product?  Check. Ridiculous discount?  Check. Product description riddled with grammatical errors and pretentious, unintelligible language?  Check. Customer “reviews” that are worth their weight in gold?  You betcha. I hereby present the Plodes RECH reDO Lawn Chair – Black Leather with White Stitching and Cherry Arms. This isn’t just any old lawn chair. This [...]

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The stupidity is overwhelming and all-encompassing.  Two quotations keep springing my my mind.  Tacitus, of course (“They make a desert and call it peace”) and the Rev. Sydney Smith (1771-1845): In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm [at Sidmouth, England], Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of [...]

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I was going to write a gorgeous post about the Battle of Midway celebration.  Indeed, I was able to write the first two paragraphs, before my day went wildly off the tracks. Some of the activities were delightful (dim sum with my family and my wonderful in-laws, and a lengthy and enjoyable Tea Tasting in [...]

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What’s the most joyous, happy piece of music you know?  (And Beethoven’s Ode to Joy doesn’t count, because it’s too obvious.)  The music can be any genre, such as classical, pop, country, etc. I ask because, since I woke up, I’ve had the Black Eyed Peas “I got a feelin’” running through my head.*  Why?  [...]

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Over at Ricochet, there’s a really interesting post about women in combat, written by a former paratrooper.  The point that fascinated me was his claim that women aren’t leaders.  I’ve always defined myself as a born follower.  I’ll fill a vacuum if no one is leading, and I have no problem taking a leadership role [...]

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I often say I’m shocked by something that crosses my computer screen, but that’s not really true.  I mean, I probably sort of shocked insofar as I’m surprised that someone has behaved according to type, but in an extreme way, or that something I’ve long assumed would happen actually did happen (or, in a surprising [...]

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Yet another week during which I agonized about casting my votes, since the submissions were so uniformly excellent (as evidenced by all the ties).  See what you think: Council Winners *First place with 3 votes! The Political Commentator–-A Memorial Day story of unimaginable inspiration! Second place 2 votes – The Razor-Occam’s Razor Unnecessary To Cut [...]

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My daughter is trying to compare medical treatments and outcomes during the Civil War and during the current wars.  Broadly speaking, that’s quite easy, ’cause all you really need to know are antibiotics and sterile techniques.  Everything else is a subset (and yes, I know I’m grossly over-simplifying). The problem for her is the level [...]

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I don’t watch American Idol, but I follow it vicariously, because Don Quixote watches it.  He and I were both mulling over the significance of Scotty McCreery’s ascendency.  I posited — and later discovered that I wasn’t the only one thinking these thoughts — that McCreery may be a bellwether for 2012.  He represents a [...]

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My friend Richard Baehr spotted this gem in a New York Times article announcing a new executive editor: Ms. Abramson, 57, said that as a born-and-raised New Yorker, she considered being named editor of The Times to be like “ascending to Valhalla.” “In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion,” she said. “If [...]

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I certainly wouldn’t want to read too much into this, but I find interesting the current results (as of noon today) in this completely unscientific poll from the Marin Independent Journal, a local paper that serves the heart of liberal land: Marin IJ poll results re immigration

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Conservatives have been aware for a while that the Texas oil industry is being threatened by a lizard.  It’s not being threatened this way: Godzilla Movie Poster Instead, it’s being threatened this way: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Logo It turns out that the sand dune lizard, an innocuous little buff-colored guy, is (a) allegedly [...]

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Some in the town of Grand Rapids took umbrage at being tagged as a “dying” American city in some magazine or another.  One man, who has a reputation for showmanship, raised $40,000, and got 5,000 people to participate in this amazing ONE SHOT video:

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Shapiro’s book, Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV, already is one of several I’ve chosen for vacation reading.  He’s now releasing excerpts from his interviews: See more revealing videos here.  (And by revealing, I don’t mean underwear shots, I mean “thought” shots.) I don’t know about you [...]

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Do you remember the old Dean Martin comedy roasts?  The zingers were mean, sometimes mildly risqué, and usually funny.  Don Rickles was the acknowledged master of the genre: The California Assembly has taken the roast to a whole new level.  At a benefit to raise money for programs involving young people and politics (“It’s for [...]

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The Anchoress quite correctly identifies Palin’s bus trip as game-playing.  Palin, having been harassed unmercifully by the MSM since she burst upon the national political scene, is finally having her nyah-nyah-nyah moment.  She’s turned the tables and is now harassing the MSM, which is very satisfying.  The Anchoress suspects that Palin’s nose thumbing will not [...]

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